41: cooperate?

In Secret Realm No. 7, the place where everyone was teleported into was the same;

It was a stone platform, barren, filled with signs of human intervention.

It was as if a great mountain had been cut in half at the waist to create this platform...

Chu Yuan extended his Divine Sense, confirming his guess was correct.

The way they appeared was by falling from a blood-colored vortex two meters above the platform. The vortex was large, circular, and about five meters in diameter;

At this moment, it was still continuously spitting people out...

When it was time to return, they would just need to jump directly into this same vortex.

Before they had time to carefully observe the surrounding scenery, a long howl suddenly rang out, seemingly... from the foot of the mountain?

The crowd was suddenly in a commotion, and Chu Yuan's Divine Sense immediately swept over there!

But he only saw a blood-colored figure leaping away into the distance...

"Blood Beasts have pack consciousness, just like... ancient wolf packs?

Of course, their intelligence is a bit higher; they can be considered low-level alien races..." Li Hong approached, still wearing a gentle smile: "This one was likely left here to monitor the movements of the teleportation rift;

I estimate that very soon, all the Blood Beasts in the Secret Realm will know that the Human Race has come again!"

Chu Yuan nodded; he thought the same;

Secret Realm No. 7 is firmly controlled by Great Qin, and the Great Qin legions 'harvest' it every year.

The Blood Beasts here must have long feared the Human Race to their bones!

Therefore, that Blood Beast at the foot of the mountain, although it roughly possessed the speed of a Third Realm Martial Artist, had no desire to come over and attack;

Instead, it ran away immediately upon seeing people.

"We are all from the same school, do you want to cooperate?" Li Hong continued to ask;

Chu Yuan looked at him with a confused expression;

In this trial, it could be said that everyone was a competitor!

If they cooperated, how would the final credit be divided?

Li Hong raised the terminal on his wrist: "The trial mission is to kill Blood Beasts;

First Realm, one point;

Second Realm, ten points;

Third Realm, one hundred points... Your strength is very strong. If you can help me get first place, I promise on behalf of the Li family that I will definitely give you unimaginable rewards!"

"If you could represent the Li family, would you still have been sent to Chenyang City?" Chu Yuan was unmoved and said expressionlessly.

Li Hong was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly: "You really are blunt with your words...

Of course I cannot represent the Li family, but if I can achieve first place in the trial, perhaps I might have a little bit of qualification?"

"Your Li family's strength is so great, could it be that only you came this time?

Why not find your own family members to cooperate with?" Chu Yuan asked. Anyway, he didn't believe that only Li Hong had come to this Secret Realm trial;

Since they wanted to obtain Cultivation Technique, it was naturally better to cooperate with their own family members;

The distribution of benefits afterwards would also be easier to negotiate.

Li Hong shook his head and looked in one direction: "My relationship with them... is not very good."

Chu Yuan followed his gaze and saw a boy who looked somewhat similar to Li Hong, indifferently observing this side;

While most people were wearing school uniforms, he was unconventional, wearing a pure black training suit that looked like silk.

His hair was cut short, appearing quite refreshing;

A man and a woman followed behind him, vaguely taking him as their leader.

After noticing Chu Yuan's gaze, he coldly glanced at Chu Yuan again, then stepped with his feet and left the platform.

"He is Li Ji." Li Hong explained simply, then pressed again: "How about it, do you want to cooperate?

You should be able to imagine that fighting alone will definitely be at a disadvantage... After all, not everyone is here for the first-place reward, and in this trial, there are quite a few children from martial arts families like us;

Our Li family... is not the strongest either."

"Not interested." Chu Yuan didn't wait for Li Hong to persuade him further and directly activated Luo Yan Step to leave the platform.

The smile on Li Hong's face gradually faded. He looked in the direction Chu Yuan left, his gaze flickering;

The girl who had given Jiang Fei a drink on the way here hesitantly approached: "Um... I didn't mean to eavesdrop on your conversation;

I just wanted to ask, can we form a team?"

"Of course."

...

There were no Blood Beasts near the platform; even the dumbest and stupidest Blood Beast knew to stay away from this dangerous place;

Therefore, if one wanted to hunt Blood Beasts, they had to go deeper.

The terminal issued by the military had a detailed map, also divided by different colors according to the degree of danger;

Chu Yuan flipped through the information in the terminal while on his way.

Unexpectedly, the information was extremely brief;

There were only three parts.

The first part was the trial content, which was hunting Blood Beasts!

The terminal came with a recording function, and the final ranking would be settled based on the number of points.

The second part was the general situation in Secret Realm No. 7, which was also the part with the most content;

It included maps, patterns of precious medicinal herbs, patterns of edible plants, patterns of Secret Realm creatures, introductions to safe water sources... and so on.

This trial would last for five days. For the current students, except for the extremely rare Inner Breath Realm, the others could not go without eating or drinking for five days.

The third part was the bottom-line safety mechanism;

This trial had no high-level Martial Artists guarding it, and besides, there were too many students to look after;

However, those who encountered danger or wanted to give up could retreat to the stone platform and jump directly into the vortex to return.

The stone platform had a protective mechanism that did not affect the Human Race, but for other creatures... one would die for every one that came!

There was nothing else. In the terminal, for them as trial-takers, there seemed to be no restrictions?

Chu Yuan had originally thought there would be some rule about 'not killing each other', but it did not appear...

For such a serious trial, one could first rule out the possibility that the person who made the rules 'forgot'.

Chu Yuan looked at the terminal in his hand... So, did the higher-ups intentionally do this, tacitly allowing students to attack each other;

Or was it... also a layer of the test?

Since the terminal issued by the military could record the situation of hunting Blood Beasts, it wouldn't be difficult to record video as well...

While lost in thought, a fierce wind suddenly came towards him!

Chu Yuan subconsciously tilted his head, and a stone flew past his ear;

"Yo, not bad!"

A playful voice rang out, and a figure jumped down from a large tree nearby;

Chu Yuan's brows twitched, discovering that it was the boy who had been following behind Li Ji earlier.

He couldn't be bothered to talk. With a flick of his finger, the wind slasher sword at his waist was in his hand;

The boy didn't care, hugging his arms, looking curious:

"Can you tell me, how did a bumpkin like you from such a small place... offend Brother Ji?"

"You will know soon..."

Wind Control: Speed!

Above the sword blade, a pale cyan light flared up, as if true strong wind had condensed!

It arrived in a flash...